Machine for dyeing skeins of yarn



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W. McALLISTER. MACHINE FOR DYEING SKEINS 01-" YARN.

No. 280,644. Patented July 3-, 18.83;

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MACHINE FOR DYBING SKEINS 0F YARN.

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* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLTAM MCALLISTER,'0F LAVRENOE, MASSACHUSETTS. 1

MACHINE FOR DYEING SKEINS OF YARN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. Q80,64=4=, dated July 3, 1883.

' Application filed July19,1882. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM McALLIsTER, of Lawrence, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Dyeing Skeins of Yarn, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide a cheap, simple, convenient, and efficient machine'for holding and retaining in position a series of skeins of yarn, so that they may be carried, drawn, or passed through a box or vat containing dyes or mordants in the process of dyeing or coloring the same, by which means such skeins may be held in a spread and extended position, so as to receive the mordant or dye evenly throughout as they are passed or drawn through, whereby the entanglement of the yarn is avoided, and the necessity of rewinding and beaming the same, as heretofore, is dispensed with, thereby saving much time and labor; and my invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of askein holder or carrier provided with a series of cross bars or rods secured at certain intervals to a tape or webbing belt orother suitable apron, leaving their opposite ends or their main portions free to receive one or more skeins of yarn, which may be placed thereon and spread out or extended into a fiat position, and the opposite end of the skein placed upon the next cross bar or rod in like manner, and then the ends of the said cross bars or rods fastened or temporarily secured in any suitable manner, as hereinafter more fully described, and set forth in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a yarn-dyeing machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a top plan of the same. Fig. 3 represents a top or plan View of a portion of the traveling web, drawn to an enlarged scale. Fig. 4. represents an edge view or elevation of the same.

A represents a dye box or receptacle for holding dye or mordant to be used in the process of dyeing, and is provided with a series of guide-rolls, B, journaled near the top and bottom of the same, and extending from side to side.

D represents a feed-roll, to which power and motion may be applied bya belt passing over the driving-pulley O,whereby the skeins of yarn E, each end of which is passed over and upon the end portions of the cross bars or rods H, are spread out flat, when the ends of the rods H are secured or temporarily connected with the tapes or webbing strips F, by being inserted within the loops or pockets G, formed upon the same, or secured thereto at intervals corresponding to the length of the said skeins E, the said cross-rods H being secured permanently to the central portion, webbing, or tape, F, in any suitable manner. These tapes or webbings have secured thereto the flat crossstrips J, at about midway orbetween the said cross-rods H, and upon which the said skeins of yarn E rest, so as to prevent their sagging or extending below the said tapes or webbing strips F when all are connected into a continuous chain or belt by tying their opposite ends together after being passed on or over and under the several guide-rolls B, feed-roll D, and adjustable tension-roll L, elevated upon the uprights K, located near the longitudinal center of the rectangular mordant or dye box A, as shown in the figures of the drawings. It will be evident that one or more such equipped boxes or machines may be placed or arranged near e'ach'other end to end, so as to permit one end of such chain or belt containing the skeins of yarn to be placed be tween the feed-rolls, at one end of the same, and thence around the guide-rolls through one or more such boxes, the first of which may contain the desired liquid or mordant, and the next one a different liquid or dye, and so continued or repeated until the desired process of dyeing or scouring or bleaching is completed.

Then the said chain or belt containing the skeins of yarn may be carried or extended into a drier or room to befurther treated; or the same may be bleached or scoured, then rolled upon a heated tube or cylinder and finished, ready for the market or use, by simply being removed from the said rods and twisted or converted into any manner of goods, as desired, or as now in general use.

It will be understood that l contemplate a modification of this carrier chain or belt by the substitution of a suitable netting, webbing, or other fabric, instead of the tapes or webbings, of a width adapted to correspond with the width of the dye-box, or of such width as to carry two or more skeins of yarn side by side, as shown in the drawings.

I am aware that heretofore skeins of yarn have been placed upon rods, and the rods, with the yarn thereon, connected at their ends with hooks or catches formed upon an endless chain or the arms of a wheel, so as to be carried through a liquid or moved back and forth therein, so as to act upon a portion of the skein then the position of the skeins is changed so as to bring the other portion into contact with the liquid. Therefore I do not claim such invention, as it would not serve the purpose contemplated by my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1.. The combination, with a dye-box or other receptacle provided with driving or feed rolls and having a series of guide-rolls, of the belt or traveling web provided with a series of cross rods or supports secured centrally thereto at intervals, and adapted to receive and re tain thereon spread or extended skeins of yarn, substantially as described, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, with the traveling web or belt, of the series of cross rods or supports secured thereto centrally at intervals corresponding to the length of aslgein of yarn, and adapted to receive and retain thereon a series of spread or extended skeins of yarn, substantially as described, as and for the purposes set forth.

'WILLIAM l\IoALLlSTER.

\Vitnesses:

I SYLVENUS \VALKER, James T. DORSEY. 

